Manually Installing Core Catalogs for Home Designer Pro

QUESTION

I am unable to download the Core Catalog files for Home Designer Pro, how can I manually install them?

ANSWER

Follow the steps below to download the catalog files to your computer, then copy them to their respective locations.

To download the Core Catalog files

It is recommended to create a folder on your computer, in an easy to access location such as your desktop, where you can save these files to, otherwise they will download to whatever default location your web browser is set to, typically your Downloads folder.

One by one, right-click the following links and choose Save Link As (or appropriate counterpart for your internet browser), allowing you to save the file to a specific location.

Referenced Files are compressed .zip folders and need to be copied as-is; do not open or extract the contents of these files.

Open both the folder containing the downloaded files, as well as the destination location where the catalog files will be copied to, then copy or move the files from the download folder to the core catalog folder.

To install the core catalog files on Windows

Close Home Designer Pro.

On your keyboard, hold the Windows key and press R once to open a Run dialog.

In the Open line of the Run dialog, type %programdata% and press OK.

Locate and browse into the Home Designer Pro 2017 folder (or the folder for your version of the software).